Nice Girls Don't Win

<b>“A bible for badass women.”—SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR<br><br>“Gripping and liberating.”—ADAM GRANT, #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Hidden Potential</i> and <i>Think Again</i><br><br>“<i>Survivor</i> legend and gay icon, Parvati Shallow has won my heart all over again.”—BOWEN YANG<br><br>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bold, eye-opening memoir about survival, trauma, and healing, from one of reality television’s most talked-about stars</b><br><br>At twenty-five years old, Parvati Shallow was plunged into fame and fortune after becoming the million-dollar winner of the reality television series<i> Survivor. </i>But despite her success, the ghosts of her traumatic past, coupled with the harsh glare of the public eye, kept her locked in a survival cycle of fear and shame that sabotaged her self-confidence and eroded her self-trust. It wasn’t until a series of painful life events, including the death of her younger brother and a challenging divorce, that she found herself on a path of healing that would awaken her true power and reset the course of her life.<br><br>In <i>Nice Girls Don’t Win, </i>Shallow shares the stories that allowed her to transform her most difficult moments into potent catalysts for empowerment. From her childhood growing up in a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru, to her journey out of the South and into the L.A. casting rooms that would eventually drop her in the lush but brutal landscapes of <i>Survivor, </i>Shallow shows readers what it took to build herself into the <i>ultimate</i> survivor—for better and, more often, for worse. She then reveals what it took to rebuild herself into something much greater.<br><br>As harrowing as it is healing, Parvati Shallow’s story is a testament to the profound lessons that can be found in radical self-acceptance and self-love.